Mary Lou Retton Quotes
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
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When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.
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I didn't want to do movies with hundreds of camels crossing the desert followed by tanks and this and that.
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Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.
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I think a lot of people secretly wish they were a rock star, and I'm no exception.
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Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
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Everything happens the way it's supposed to because it's just like cavemen - you evolve and grow and learn.
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Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
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Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
